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<td class="v">3:1</td>
<td>After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.</td>
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<td class="v">3:2</td>
<td>And Job spake, and said,</td>
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<td class="v">3:3</td>
<td>Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.</td>
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<td class="v">3:4</td>
<td>Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.</td>
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<td class="v">3:5</td>
<td>Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.</td>
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<td class="v">3:6</td>
<td>As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.</td>
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<td class="v">3:7</td>
<td>Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.</td>
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<td class="v">3:8</td>
<td>Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.</td>
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<td class="v">3:9</td>
<td>Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:</td>
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<td class="v">3:10</td>
<td>Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.</td>
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<td class="v">3:11</td>
<td>Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?</td>
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<td class="v">3:12</td>
<td>Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?</td>
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<td class="v">3:13</td>
<td>For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,</td>
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<td class="v">3:14</td>
<td>With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;</td>
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<td class="v">3:15</td>
<td>Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:</td>
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<td class="v">3:16</td>
<td>Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.</td>
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<td class="v">3:17</td>
<td>There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.</td>
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<td class="v">3:18</td>
<td>There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.</td>
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<td class="v">3:19</td>
<td>The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.</td>
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<td class="v">3:20</td>
<td>Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul;</td>
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<td class="v">3:21</td>
<td>Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;</td>
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<td class="v">3:22</td>
<td>Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?</td>
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<td class="v">3:23</td>
<td>Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?</td>
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<td class="v">3:24</td>
<td>For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.</td>
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<td class="v">3:25</td>
<td>For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.</td>
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<td class="v">3:26</td>
<td>I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.</td>
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